LIZ OAKLEY
CV
EDUCATION + TRAINING
2021 Headlong Performance Institute - Philadelphia, PA
2018 - 19 Actor-Puppeteer Annual Professional Training - Théâtre Aux Mains Nues - Paris
2016 BA in Spatial Studies (Independent Concentration) - Brown University - Providence, RI
RESIDENCIES + RECOGNITION + EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Sable Project Resident Artist
2021 Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition (Parades for All Occasions)
2021 City of Philadelphia Illuminate the Arts Grant Recipient
2021 NYC Awesome Foundation Grant Recipient (The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages)
2021 Welcome to My Homepage Digital Resident Artist (as Out of Work Puppeteers)
2021 Object Movement Digital Puppetry Lab Resident Artist
2018 UNIMA-USA Scholarship Recipient
CREATION (+ performance)
2021
Bodywhere, Creator + Puppeteer
V1 10 min video: Object Movement Festival (online) @ The Center at West Park (New York, NY)
V2 6 min video: Puppet Spread @ The Tank (New York, NY)
V3 12 min live performance: Puppet BloK @ Dixon Place (New York, NY)
V4 15 min live performance: Performance Mix Festival @ Abrons Arts Center (New York, NY)
Held, Suspended, Creator + Puppeteer, The Sable Project
Parades for All Occasions, Co-creator + Facilitator, The Wassaic Project (Wassaic NY) + PHonk! (Philadelphia, PA)
The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages, Creator + Director, Art In Odd Places Festival (New York, NY)
2020
Grand Marshal Float, Co-creator + Puppeteer, The Wassaic Project
The Future of Pigs, Co-creator + Puppeteer, Great Small Works’ Virtual Spaghetti Dinner (online)
The Misfit Puppet Troupe: Live from the Stoop!, Co-creator + Puppeteer, Dreamers Welcome TV (online)
Greetings from Here!, Co-creator + Puppeteer, Great Small Works’ Virtual Toy Theatre Festival (online)
Daily Walk, Creator + Puppeteer, Luna Loba @ Wilbury Theatre Group (online)
What is the Role of Chairperson?, Co-creator + Puppeteer, Coney Island USA (online) + Puppet Sketchbook (Brooklyn, NY) + Swedish Cottage (online)
A New You, Creator + Puppeteer, Undiscovered Countries @ Judson Memorial Church (New York, NY)
2019
Surface Tension, Creator + Performer, DARKFest @ The Tank (New York, NY)
Hymn for a Little Big Man, Co-creator + Puppeteer, Le Pave d’Orsay + Le Rigoletto (Paris)
2018
Dreams of Loss and Light, Co-creator + Puppeteer, Tour (Philadelphia, Durham, Providence)
G(u)ardence: The Afterlife of Trees, Co-creator + Performer, Low Mountaintop Collective, AS220 (Providence, RI)
I was just full and now i am hungry again, Creator + Performer, Luna Loba @ AS220 (Providence, RI)
2017
Float, Creator + Puppeteer, Puppet Showplace Theater Slam (Brookline, MA)
in/animate, Co-creator + Puppeteer, Providence Fringe Festival, The WaterFire Arts Center (Providence, RI)
PERFORMANCE (+ creation)
2022
Song of the North, Understudy Puppeteer, dir. Hamid Rahmanian
The Human Dream Project, Puppeteer, dir. Admiral Grey, Puppet Lab @ St. Ann’s Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY)
2021
TipToe the Reindeer, Puppeteer, dir. Jessica Grindstaff, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (New York, NY)
All Vows (workshop performance), Puppeteer + Deviser, dir. Sam Jay Gold, Morris Museum (Morristown, NJ)
Punch Agathe, Puppeteer, dir. Steffi Oberhoff, Basel International Figure Theater Festival (Basel, Switzerland)
The Human Dream Project, Puppeteer, dir. Admiral Grey, Opus 40 (Saugerties, NY)
2020
Mortal Meal Services, Puppeteer + Deviser, dir. Mieke Dee, Woodlands Cemetery (Philadelphia, PA)
2019
Yeti, Set, Snow!, Puppeteer, dir. Bruce Cannon, Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (New York, NY)
Puss in Boots, Puppeteer, dir. Bruce Cannon, Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (New York, NY)
Le Chantier des Logogriphes, Puppeteer + Deviser, dir. Claire Heggen, Théâtre Aux Mains Nues (Paris, France)
DESIGN + TECHNICAL
2022
The Collision, Puppet + Prop Designer, dir. Lily Riopelle, Two Headed Rep, 59E59 (New York, NY)
The Martyrdom, Puppet + Prop Designer, dir. Molly Clifford, Two Headed Rep, 59E59 (New York, NY)
2021
The Village Halloween Parade, Puppet Tech Marshal (2017, 2019, 2021), Processional Arts Workshop
2020
Mortal Meal Services, Puppet + Map Designer, dir. Mieke Dee, Woodlands Cemetery (Philadelphia, PA)
(in)ferUTILITY, Puppet Designer, dir. Alexis Ingram, Mixed Magic Theatre (Pawtucket, RI)
2019
This Is Eden, Puppet + Prop Designer, dir. Celeste Cahn, New Masculinities Festival @ LGBT Center (New York, NY)
Mad Hatters Parade, Workshop Assistant, Processional Arts Workshop (Hudson, NY)
2018
M(y)o͝oˈlädō, Puppet Designer, dir. Alexis Ingram, Providence Fringe Festival, Yellow Peril Gallery (Providence, RI)
Erratics, Technical Assistant, dir. Dan Hurlin, Brown University Theatre Department (Providence, RI)
2017
The Winter’s Tale, Puppet Designer, dir. Elizabeth Carlson-Guerin, Saratoga Shakespeare Company (NY)
2015
Leo Baum's Guide to Articulating a Skeleton, Puppet Designer, dir. Ada Dolan- Zalaznick, Production Workshop, Brown University (Providence, RI)
Into The Woods, Puppet Designer, dir. Dylan C. Platt, Production Workshop, Brown University (Providence, RI)
2014
The Snow Queen, Puppet Designer, dir. Evan Silver, Production Workshop, Brown University (Providence, RI)
2013
The Valentine Trilogy, Puppet Designer, dir. Skylar Fox, Circuit Theater Company, Boston Center for the Arts
(Boston, MA)
Equus, Puppet Designer, dir. Benjamin Freeman, Production Workshop, Brown University (Providence, RI)
SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE
Teaching Artist - Fleisher Art Memorial - 2021
Teaching Artist - Puppetry in Practice - 2020 - 21
Teaching Artist - Children’s Museum of the Arts - 2019 - 20
Teaching Artist - Wingspan Arts - 2019 - 20
Puppeteer - Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre - 2019 - 20
Summer Art Colony Administrative Assistant - Children’s Museum of the Arts - 2019
Black Box Theatre Production Manager - AS220 - 2017-18